Mentally ill should be treated, not incarcerated

Our country has been focusing on gun violence committed by a few mentally ill people. What has not been talked about adequately are the tens of thousands of mentally ill people who are arrested each year for misdemeanors, housed in jails because adequate mental health care cannot be accessed, and released only to be rearrested for additional low-level crimes.

Instead of just focusing on mentally ill killers, we should also examine the expensive and inefficient practice of housing nonviolent mentally ill people in jails instead of providing mental health treatment.

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Mentally ill should be treated, not incarcerated

Instead of just focusing on mentally ill killers, we should also examine the expensive and inefficient practice of housing nonviolent mentally ill people in jails instead of providing mental health